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• Report: Obama, Netanyahu to meet in U.S. on Tuesday
• Lieberman on Quartet call: You can't make artificial peace
• Did Nazis exaggerate death toll in WWII Dresden air raid?
• Israel to engage in 'trust-building' moves in wake of East Jerusalem row
• ADL: Petraeus wrong to link anti-U.S. attitude to Mideast peace

Report: Obama, Netanyahu to meet in U.S. on Tuesday Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:37 AM PDT Israeli officials have confirmed that United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, amid growing tension over Israel's recent announcement to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, Fox news reported on Friday. ...

Lieberman on Quartet call: You can't make artificial peace Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:03 AM PDT Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman responded Friday to the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators' call to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, saying that peace is not something which can be created artificially and with unrealistic timetables. ...

Did Nazis exaggerate death toll in WWII Dresden air raid? Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:44 AM PDT The Dresden Historians' Commission published a report this week claiming that only 25,000 people were killed in the Allies' air raid of the German city Dresden during world war II , unlike the previous estimation of up to half a million casualties, news agencies reported. ...

Israel to engage in 'trust-building' moves in wake of East Jerusalem row Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:58 PM PDT Israel is willing to carry out trust-building moves in the West Bank in order to facilitate peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday. ...

ADL: Petraeus wrong to link anti-U.S. attitude to Mideast peace Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PDT The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) criticized as "dangerous and counterproductive" the Senate testimony of General David Petraeus in which he blamed "insufficient progress" in resolving the ongoing Israeli-Arab conflict as a significant impediment to achieving U.S. goals in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Iran, and for encouraging "anti-American sentiment." ...

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